Democrats consider the people as the safest depository of power in the last resort; they cherish them, therefore, and wish to leave in them all the powers to the exercise of which they are competent.

The dominion which the banking institutions have obtained over the minds of our citizens...must be broken, or it will break us.

Peace, that glorious moment in time when everyone stops and reloads.

My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!

The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.

Question with boldness even the existence of a god.

I have learnt to expect that it will rarely fall to the lot of imperfect man to retire from this station with the reputation and the favor which bring him into it.